Down The Middle (Mess Page)
It seems to me that your brain is broken down into two types of processes, emotional and Logical
This, like all things can be related to yin and yang. If you associate yin with emptiness and yang with full, then which would be empty and which would be full? I’d have to say that your logical process would be yin, <
However valuable this information, many people react incorrectly. For example, if you dont realize that yin and yang are directly related, you also don’t realize the two must work together, motion. So, your logical mind starts saying “wow there is too much emotion here, so as a quick solution, builds a dam to keep your emotions at bay(bottling up your emotions effect). And ____ such clarity in your actions and thoughts, till the emotion builds up, and the dam can no longer hold it at bay and you’re left with an incomprehensible amount of emotion(“bottle bursting”), and what remains of your rath. Not to mention that the dam rebuilds to burst again, adding to the pressure and weakens the structure each time(disorders).
Although living with logical always on seems not only the best solution, but the only one that makes sense. If you would like a better example of this look at Spock or Whinnie the Pooh, however in real life, people tend to feel indifferent toward you, or feel that you’re insincere, such are the conditioning granted to us by our society.
If you were to alter your perception as much as possible to lose your preconcieved ideas about everything.<<
Middle ground = Rujing
When moving into a sitution, remain empty. Any problem that arises, treat it as if you don’t care about the result, just think problem -> solution. Nohing else, but to do this you must also keep your awareness keen to all aspects going into the situation, then truth will be revealed. You must adapt to every element of every environment.
Many people already have their logical/emotion associations, they just label them as mind and heart, as if they were separate entities. >> An interesting quote from a Modest Mouse song depicts what i think is a way of describing an overemotive mind using these associations when they say “My brains a burger and my hearts the Coal”<<
You must realize there is no such thing as good or bad, only Truth and nothing. Good and bad have a definition that changes based on perpsective. What may be considered bad in once instance, could be considered good by another person. Many people will mark things as bad because they felt negitive feelings during the process, yet the overall effects were something that was necessary. Once you realize that there is no such thing as good or bad, just situations and changes, then when will you have a problem? At that point there will be no more reason to lie, because emotion is the only reason you would want to lie. It doesn’t make sense to prolong a process because it may be a little akward or difficult and start lying, you may as well take care of the problem in one simple cut, and move along.
The goal is not to rid yourself of emotion, the goal is to reach the middle ground. It is to have neither Emotion nor Logical, emptiness. You can also describe this as being centered.
When you take emotion out of your situation, ideas and good and bad with it, you’re only left with truth or no truth.
A hypothetical example.
Take smoking Marijuana, as an example, the logical part of your mind wants you to weigh the benifits vs. the cons of using it. Your emotional part of your mind would like you to listen to your preconditioning that says whether it’s good or not, or whether it should be done. But your preconditioned ideas are not necessarily the right ones.
Emotional - ( 0)
Center - ( 0 )
Logical - (0 )
Xin/Yi Xin = Heart? or Emotion? Yi = whole mind or logic?
Layout?
Part 1 - Intro
Part 2 - yin
Part 3 - Yang
Part 4 - misconceptions/working against
Part 5 - working together
Part 6 - Outro